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The headless Bongo was lovely (but needed finishing), but there's always the even lovelier handmade one of mine (handmade by someone else, I emphasise).

The string gauges on the bass uke are quite a bit bigger than those on the baritone. That would mean differences for the tuners and the bridge, and the string spacing might be greater (hence wider neck).

They say the shipping is due in September, in fact it gets here a lot quicker than that. Normally get here in around a fortnight. Currently still stuck in customs.

I'm no PA expert but I think you have a good start. As for monitors, we're using Alto TS308s (8") and they're capable of blowing your head off. Because nobody else wanted to store the RCF ART710s that I had and I wanted something smaller and lighter, they've gone and have been replaced by another pair of Alto 8" speakers (TS408) for FOH. We'll see how those go at the next gig. Currently putting vocals and one of the guitars through that.

Early Tecamp Pumas didn't have fans, later ones did but they're very quiet.

The first two will boost or cut a band of frequencies, the first centred on just over 2kHz and the second between 3 and 4kHz, while the third and fourth will boost or cut all treble starting at 200Hz (3) or 100Hz (4). So applying treble boost with 1 or 2 won't push the higher frequencies up as much as the frequencies at the centre of the band.

I had a couple of 250 Superdreams and a 400 Dream. The 400 was definitely better. A friend of mine has recently been restoring a CB400A (the automatic version), making one good engine from two. One of the two had apparently been used as a boat anchor and that wonderful cylinder head bolt system really came into its own on that.

The OBP2 wiring diagram is at http://www.aguilaramp.com/wp-content/uploads/wiring-diagram-obp-2-v2.pdf - he wants page 4.

Do you only want the tone control to operate in passive mode?

I think the selection of 5-string ukes is pretty small. Kala had a Chinese-made range which included a fretted 5-string (which I have) but that's been discontinued, and there was no fretless - I feel more and more tempted to defret mine. Their eye-wateringly expensive California range had a 5-string fretless, like what @Smanth has, but that range is currently being revamped. The broadest selection is 4-string electroacoustics - at the not-quite-bottom end of the financial scale, there's https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363555959883 which several of us on BC bought. Also worth trying an Ashbory dogbone - the De Armond version with proper tuners rather than the banjo tuners on the original Guild ones.

Budget? Solid or electro-acoustic? Number of strings? Fretted or fretless?

I've got a Creality CR-6 SE which I have yet to recalibrate after changing the extruder and nozzle assembly following various issues. Nice feature - it has auto-levelling which seems to work well.

GR Bass AT800 Cube combo Tecamp Puma 900 head because I didn't want to part with it - I'm still building a BC112Mk3 which I may or may not use with it at gigs

Tamworth Arts Centre was a good venue, but eventually got converted into a registry office. After having played a few gigs there from the early 80s on, the last time I was in there was marrying Mrs Zero in 2008. You always knew Bricko was doing the disco when he closed with "We are the Ovalteenies".

I thought they came with a new bass.

A couple of other little things about the MS-60B to qualify what @Bassmidget209 says. If you have a PC, you can use Tonelib's free and very good Zoom manager to play with the effect - https://tonelib.net/tonelib-zoom.html If you use the MS-60B standalone or off a pedalboard, Zoom's own power supply is fine, and also it can be run off two AA batteries, which last a goodly time (rechargeables last me at least 4 hours).

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Bike to replace the Tiger 800, but which one? Sei Flamboyant 5 headless fretless if one should happen to appear Fane Sovereign 8" speaker for the next cab, which I don't really need

It should stop your house blowing away.

Does that mean you've revised the 8" to have a rear port, or is it remaining with the front port?

He was at Musical Exchanges when it was in Broad Street and I was a teenage schoolkid looking in the window (which had Dave Hill's Yob guitar hanging in it).

Excellent. I'm glad it's all coming together.

Well, hang on for a week or so... Carrier note: [Weifang City] Leaving [Changle County Huanlan Investment Department], the next stop [Weifang Center] 2023-07-21 18:19:53

Smoothhound wireless system - works well, but why is the power supply 9V centre positive with a standard 5.5/2.1 connector when making it centre negative would have made using daisy chains or multiple outlet power supplies far simpler?

Just checked and he is, but he's 84. Also just had a listen to a 2020 performance of Cathedrale and I prefer the original with Akkerman and Colin Allen.